California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks

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• GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just wait until they secretly replace the trained human safety operator with this:

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  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean airplanes kinda don’t drive over people walking on a sidewalk…

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• Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen enough dashcam footage from truck drivers being cut off in traffic and nearly causing a major accident or running over people that this seems like a pretty wise decision until the technology matures.

  Trucks have a huge amount of momentum, they can’t just slam the brakes like on a Tesla. Humans aren’t particularly good at split second decisions but I feel experienced truckers definitely have better guts on how to react than a computer. Fully support requiring someone to keep an eye on it for now.

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  • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’d be surprised at how quickly a truck can brake to a complete stop.

    But you’re right regardless. It’s the momentum what makes them dangerous. If a car taps another car for half a second, the damage might be catastrophic. A semi doing the same? Yikes.

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  • sizzler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Feels ain’t reals.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “The humans brain is currently better at understanding edge cases and predicting other human’s behavior than AI” is more of a fact than a feeling.

      Self driving AI doesn’t notice the driver passing them is nodding off or screaming while giving it the finger. It doesn’t pick up the subtle clues that another driver is drunk or distracted. It can’t see that a load in a pickup truck isn’t properly secured and predict it falling off.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While you’re at it make them pay extra for the amount trucking just fucking eats public infrastructure.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t usually agree with many American leftist talking points, but really what’s up with railways being so little used in the USA? When you need scale with regular routes and regular volumes of anything, it’s unrivaled.

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    • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      US railways are heavily used. In fact, we have the largest rail network in the world.

      The problem is that it’s almost exclusively used for freight.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oil and car lobbies dominate congress.

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You sure are right, bud. I beseach you, have you thought of the money to be made by convincing a nation to become dependant on your industry?

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  • bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you want your goods to become stupid expensive or something?

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Was not taxing them keeping the costs down? I hadn’t noticed.

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, what I really want is more transportation options to get as many fucking people off the road as possible. Covid was beautiful when no one was driving but my company made me.

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  • stepan@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But rail infrastructure isn’t that good yet in north America.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If only there was a solution to that which keeps getting ignored

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• FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why did they do this?

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    According to the article, safety concerns and job protection

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is an insanely bad decision.

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  • 5BC2E7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably to protect jobs. They are willing to risk our lives in cities since they allow autonomous cars there. So it’s unlikely that they have safety concerns with trucks

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So California is down with the Decepticons?

  Fuck Optimus Prime?

  Bold move.

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• kriz@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’ll just go secretive and underground like in that Simpsons episode

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• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Newsom has lost his mind with this one.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sure, wouldn’t want them teaming up with the robo taxis already clogging SF streets.

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